CNN’s already tarnished reputation took another hit.
There may be no coming back from this disaster.
And a CNN host’s racist gaffe just turned everything upside down.
As American Media Watch Dog reports:
The FBI arrested 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. of Virginia for placing pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters on January 5, 2021.
Joe Biden’s FBI ignored this case for four years.
President Trump’s FBI made an arrest that many Americans had given up hope would ever occur.
Many suspect Biden’s FBI sat on the pipe bombing case and never made an arrest because doing so would blow up many of the left’s most strongly held narratives.
CNN’s Jake Tapper added fuel to that fire when he announced that Cole was a “white man” seconds before airing a photo of Cole showing he was black.
“Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the D.C. suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by means of explosion,” Tapper stated.
🚨 WTF?! CNN’s Jake Tapper just went out of his way to LIE and call the J6 pipe bomb a “WHITE MAN”
CNN REFUSED to show a picture of the alleged bomber—who is clearly a BLACK MAN—so I overlayed a photo of him on their clip
CNN can’t help themselves but push anti-white rhetoric pic.twitter.com/Y4UJVjbT8A
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 5, 2025
Following January 6, the left read from a script that proclaimed Donald Trump led a white supremacist movement that was the number one terrorist threat facing America.
Cole being black obliterated one of the falsehoods that the liberal media and Democratic Party tried to convince Americans was true.
But unbelievably, some on the right tried to defend Tapper.
Erick Erickson founded the Never Trump movement.
On his radio show, Erickson defended Tapper, admitting he also fell for the stereotype that domestic terrorists were white and that he believed his audience also fell for this scam.
“You all thought the same thing: white guy anarchist from suburban Virginia,” Erickson anted. “You thought it, you know you did. Jake Tapper’s getting dragged for saying what you thought, and all I can say is, I said it before him!”
The media spent four years trying to brainwash Americans about January 6 and the events of that day.
The truth of what happened is far more complicated and doesn’t fit into the neat little story boxes the media tried to jam it into.
